Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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by Moshe Burt

Our Parsha opens with Hashem, as we understand, visiting Avraham Aveinu on the 3rd day after Bris Milah, when Avraham was at the height of his pain following the circumcision, as Rashi indicates, “to inquire about his welfare.” (Metsuda Linear Chumash rendering of Rashi on Perek 18, posuk 1)

It’s not like Hashem needed to pay a visit to ascertain Avraham’s actual condition for, Hashem is the Creator, The Master, The Ruler over the world who knows and is aware of everything. And so we learn and gain insight from this first posuk as to the Mitzvah of Bikur Cholim; showing, caring, giving strength and encouragement to the ill by visiting and caring about them. read more

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Rocket Hits Ashkelon Area

IDF Destroys Gaza Rocket [and Launcher on Ground]

2 Kassams Fall Outside of Sderot; No Injuries Reported

5 Kassam Rockets Slam into West Negev

Four Terrorists Arrested in Tulkarm, Bethlehem

Jerusalem: Jew Stabbed by 2 Arabs [at French Hill Intersection]

Two Wounded in Samaria [Rock] Attack [Near Peduel]

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By Moshe Burt

This 2nd Parsha HaShevua takes some of the points from the original, brings additional points and wings it as to the modern-day Matzav.

“Hashem said to Avram, Go for yourself from your land … to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation…” (Breish’t, Perek 12, posukim 1 & 2) Lech Lecha, the “Aliyah Parsha.”

Rashi writes on the posukim;

“For your benefit and good. It is there that I will make you a great nation …” (Rashi on Breish’t, Perek 12, posuk 1) read more

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2 Kassam Rockets Strike Open Areas in West Negev; None Wounded

Two Kassam Rockets Hit Western Negev, IAF Kills Islamic Jihad Terrorist in Northern Gaza Airstrike, by Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)

Kassam Rocket Fired at Israel; No Wounded Reported

Kassam Hits Near Sderot Cemetery

Kassam Lands Between Sderot, Sha’ar Hanegev Region; None Hurt

Rocket Explodes Outside Sderot [at Entrance to City]

Palestinians Throw Molotov Cocktails at Bus Near Bethlehem; No Wounded

Rock Attack at El Aroub [Between Jerusalem and Hevron] read more

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Massive [40] Kassam Rocket Attack [Wednesday AM] after IDF Kills Six Terrorists, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israel National News)

Two Rockets Fired into Ashkelon; No Casualties Reported [Two Treated for Shock]

Arabs Fire Six Mortars at Western Negev

IDF Troops Operating in Central Gaza to Destroy Kidnapping Tunnel

3 Soldiers Wounded in Gaza Operation

IDF Enters Gaza, Kills 5 Hamas Terrorists [While Destroying Kidnap Tunnel], by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)

Tunnel Was 250m in on Gaza Side

IDF Troops Arrest 6 Palestinian Terror Suspects read more

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Commentary;

Caroline Glick writes a damning indictment of the Left’s hypocrisy in assaulting language and, as a result, legality, morality and Jewish land and sovereignty. This post deals only with the hypocrisy regarding the left’s assault on legality, morality and Jewish land and sovereignty, although Glick drives home her point citing everything from feminist Education Minister Yuli Tamir’s advocacy of clitoridectomies in the Moslem world to the US presidential race where American feminists have “employed pornographic… and unabashedly chauvinist” invective against Republican VP candidate Governor Sarah Palin for her anti-abortion views. read more